Re: ASP email form - Web Development Discussion Boards

MayyMagdy wrote:
especially the disadvantages of css tables and advantages of using html tables

You mean CSS layout that does NOT use tables, but archives the same thing as tables. (?)

Only advantage of html layout I can think of is that in some older browsers CSS support can be bad. Umm, yeah. That's all.

CSS layout is better semanticaly, its easier to read/modify, creates smaller pages... by all means don't use table layout but CSS layout. Tables are meant and best used for displaying tables.

edit: by "some older browser" I mean really historic browsers. For wide-audience sites CSS support is VERY resonable browser requirement. That may not be true in some cases of intranet application, if company is for some reason using really old browsers. But Dead | X|

"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. " - Morpheus

This might help!

Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.

Table based layouts works better in some old browsers from a specific era, that have partial css support that prevents css layouts from degrading gracefully. Netscape 4 is the most common example of a browser like that.

For other browsers, i.e. all modern graphical browsers and also browsers that doesn't support css at all, a css layout works best. This includes browsers without a graphical interface, for example how blind people experience the web.

Table based layouts was a revolution for the web, as it allowed for layout in web pages at a time when layout wasn't really supported by html. That time was in the middle of the 90's. That was then, and this is now, when we have real tools for layout so that we don't have to use tables to fake it.

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Thank you all for help, but still have some questions. about css layout as i know it is based on absolute positions, does this means that if i want to change position for one control or its width this will affect page layout and i'll have to change position of all other controls in this page??????

also i found this article: http://www.decloak.com/Dev/CSSTables/CSS_Tables_01.aspx

any comments on it???

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MayyMagdy wrote:
about css layout as i know it is based on absolute positions

You can use absolute positions if you like, but generally you should avoid that.

does this means that if i want to change position for one control or its width this will affect page layout and i'll have to change position of all other controls in this page?

That's why you should aavoid absolute positioning.

also i found this article: http://www.decloak.com/Dev/CSSTables/CSS_Tables_01.aspx

any comments on it???

Mostly bullshit, IMHO. A lot of opinions and very little substance. Take a look at what they are selling, and consider if they are interrested in web sites that are easily maintained, or websites that needs their product for maintainence.

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without reading furthur

i will like to say...

u have to mess ur head when u have to display ur page using CSS in multi browser... u will be deadlike... belive me.. it is very good , but as a implementation is concerned, always simpler path.

Ravi Kant Srivastava
(System Analyst)
HandsOn Technology & Engineering
Gurgaon
(India)
e-mail:ravikant@hte.co.in

Hi,

I have been setting up a support web site for my company for a while now and after a recent meeting I have been asked to set up a bit more functionality on the web site.

Before I ask the question, what I have so far is a SQL database made up of several fields such as ID, Problem and Fix and I use ASP to pull information from this database and display it from a ver basic crude search engine.

This all works okay but what I have been asked to provide now is the ability to email the information that is pulled from the database to a customer.

I have tried various methods to do this using an html email form and dropping the information into the input field before emailing it. This failed for two reasons the first been the HTML tags were displayed among the text and second I was not able to manually enter the email address I want to send it to.

I then had a dig around for a while and found some ASP code that looked to do what I required but when I tried it the email was not been sent and I have my doubts it would have included all the text I wanted to send.

Please help

Anthony

Email form:

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT"%>

<%
Dim email
Dim email_numRows

Set email = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
email.ActiveConnection = MM_freqs_STRING
email.Source = "SELECT * FROM dbo.faqs"
email.CursorType = 0
email.CursorLocation = 2
email.LockType = 1
email.Open()

email_numRows = 0
%>

Email To:

From

<%=(email.Fields.Item("problem").Value)%>

<%=(email.Fields.Item("fix").Value)%>

<%
email.Close()
Set email = Nothing
%>

Mailing code:

<%
'Sends an email
Dim mail
Set mail = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
mail.To = Request.Form("To")
mail.From = Request.Form("From")
mail.Subject = Request.Form("Subject")
mail.TextBody = Request.Form("Body")
mail.Send()
Response.Write("Mail Sent!")
'Destroy the mail object!
Set mail = nothing
%>

Hi All,

I have made some progress I can now get an email to go to where I want but it does not contain the text in tne table, is this possible?

New code:

<%
Dim ObjSendMail
Set ObjSendMail = CreateObject("CDO.Message")

'This section provides the configuration information for the remote SMTP server.

ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 'Send the message using the network (SMTP over the network).
ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") ="192.9.200.14"
ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = False 'Use SSL for the connection (True or False)
ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") = 60

' If your server requires outgoing authentication uncomment the lines bleow and use a valid email address and password.
'ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 1 'basic (clear-text) authentication
'ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") ="me@here.com"
'ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") ="whatever"

ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Update

'End remote SMTP server configuration section==

ObjSendMail.To = Request.Form("To")
ObjSendMail.From = Request.Form("From")
ObjSendMail.Subject = "Support Reply"

' we are sending a text email.. simply switch the comments around to send an html email instead
'ObjSendMail.HTMLBody = "this is the body"
ObjSendMail.TextBody = "this is the body"

ObjSendMail.Send

Set ObjSendMail = Nothing
%>

Hi .Net techies,

this is kiran, i have developed a web application (ASP.Net,C#) for PDF Files using iTextShap. I got all the things what i want, except one situation where i need to restrict the client "saving the pdf file".

I have given a hyper link to the pdf file. For that i wrote javascript function in that i used this code

window.open('PDF file path');

when the pdf file is opened upon client requiest(i.e. on clicking the hyperlink) i am able to restrict the client for printing but unable to restrict Saving of pdf file.

if any body have an idia regarding this plz help me.

thanks
regards Kiran.

If they are able to access the file from aserver they will be able to save it, end of story.

Brad
Australian

- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"

A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

drag and drop layers and customize my home page as i like ,how make that ?

This is a very complex javascript system. You should check out some of the free libraries available like the Yahoo Ajax library.

Brad
Australian

- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"

A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

I am using some functions and css styles in my page. All these are working well with IE but not with others.

Plz show me the way sothat all my functions and css styles work in same manner with different browsers like IE,Mozilla etc.
Plz Help Me

With Thanks & Regards
Amit Sk Sharma

When you find out please let me know, I will be very greatfull because it is this topic that I have dedicated 2 years of my life.

Brad
Australian

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any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.

Please don't cross post.

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Amit for .NET wrote:
Plz show me the way sothat all my functions and css styles work in same manner with different browsers like IE,Mozilla etc.

Don't use them.

No, seriously, that's currently the biggest (unsolved) problem of web developement. There's no one-fits-all-solution.

"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. " - Morpheus

This is one of the biggest problem. But one has to take care of the issue while developing.

I would suggest you to look at the sites like
www.csszengarden.com and www.jobsbridge.com and follow the way the sites are designed.

you have to have some knowledge of css 2.0. get the css of these sites and study them.

Hope the tips will help.

Thanks,

Pradipta Basu

Hi all,

I am new to the world of web site creation Frown | :-(

but would like to have a go !

I have been hunting around the web for a basic asp.net 2.0 template. All I want is a template that uses a master page and has a header and side bar. The msdn website had some but they all had huge gaps down either side of the page. I feel this is a terrible waist of screen space !

I would be most grateful if some one could create / point me in the direction of a good website template to set me on my way Smile | :)

Thanks Lots !!!!
John

What sort of site is it going to be?

Brad
Australian

- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"

any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.

Just a general play with websites ! dont think i will ever put it live!

I could just do with a basic template to get me started ! A blank screen is quite daunting Smile | :)

Thanks
John

I would advise using notepad and some simple HMTL. Build a practice site and then hone certain skills. I would recommend http://www.htmlgoodies.com[^] for beguinner information

Brad
Australian

- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"

A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

or w3schools.com. I agree, get your head into HTML and CSS first, too many web application developers know nothing about client-side stuff.

I almost recommended w3schools.com, but the w3c and I have some unfinished business. And this is one of the reasons that ASP is something I loathe, too many developers never understand the client server realationship and all the other little things that go together to make the internet work.

Brad
Australian

- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"

A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

Does anyone know why when I run this script on my page for a "TD" tag:

<br />
BackgroundImage = document.getElementById('SomeTD').style.backgroundImage;<br />
                if(BackgroundImage.toLowerCase().indexOf('.png',0) != -1){<br />
                    ImageAddress = BackgroundImage.substr(BackgroundImage.toLowerCase().indexOf('(',0) + 1, BackgroundImage.toLowerCase().indexOf(')',0) - 2);<br />
                    document.getElementById('SomeTD').style.backgroundImage = 'none';<br />
                    document.getElementById('SomeTD').style.filter = 'progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src=\'' + ImageAddress + '\', sizingMethod=\'scale\');';<br />
                }<br />

It does the job perfectly, but it makes all the element(like button and textbox) in this table cell ("TD"), disabled and they are not click able or even the flashing cursor in textbox is not shown and you can not type in it?! OMG | :OMG:

Sojaner!

Because basically the filter creates an image of what the element looks when it's rendered with the filter effect, and shows that instead of the element.

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